Object

Representation ID: 4866

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The draft Medway Local Plan is fundamentally unsound because it fails to address the acute skills and literacy deficit that is already damaging the area’s economic competitiveness. Without targeted education infrastructure — including early years capacity, literacy catch-up provision, and adult skills hubs integrated with employer demand — Medway will remain unattractive to high-value businesses and will continue to lose investment to better-prepared regions.